Reach your full potential

With Silicon Valley know how and local experience

Helping entrepreneurs and investors succeed in the Australian fintech and online marketplace ventures

About Us

Part of a new wave of active management VC’s in the APAC fintech environment, the Sapien Ventures team comes with decades of entrepreneurial and investment experiences across Silicon Valley, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Maximising returns via market validation

What we look for

The entrepreneurs we partner with

We believe big things can happen from small places

We believe entrepreneurship is THE solution to the greatest challenges of our time. We see great entrepreneurs as visionary, committed, resourceful, prepared to take risks and willing to make personal sacrifices. They have immense self belief and create their own futures. And in the process, they push societies forward. They often come from humble beginnings and typically don't start with much. It is nothing short of inspiring to see how the best of them make it through the arduous entrepreneurial journey through sheer determination, conviction, energy, creativity, and adaptability. When we come across such entrepreneurs we feel honoured to support them and share in their journey. If you feel that we have just described you, then we'd love to hear from you!

Scalable Model

We like web, mobile, enterprise-software, marketplace or other scalable ventures that are solving massive problems

Committed Founders

We love supporting passionate and knowledgeable founders who are "all in"!

Growth Exec

Sales, commercial and strategy executive with specialisations in professional services and professional education. Previously Principal in management consulting and former CEO of Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia).

Sapien Ventures venture partner and CivicLedger CEO, Grantly Mailes, hosted a full-house at the inaugural Brisbane Blockchain Symposium. Every one of the 150 seat was filled. Brisbane is definitely now on the Blockchain map!

At the invitation of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia), Sapien Ventures members Victor Jiang, Helen Lorigan and John Baird embarked on a 6-city road tour across Australia & New Zealand to talk about the “Future of Finance”, focused around emerging global trends, fintech disruption and cyber-security.

Less than 3 months after breaking through A$1 billion of mortgages applied through the platform, HashChing (a Sapien Ventures portfolio company) announces on 19th Oct, 2016 that it had just broke through A$2 billion of mortgages applied:

Sapien Ventures featured on WSJ and The Australian for being among a handful of investment managers that have persuaded wealthy Chinese SIV investors to invest in Australian startups – and the ONLY so far to have invested this capital into Australian fin-tech companies. Read the full story here.